BIO SCI 55 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Maximum Sustainable Yield, Logistic Function, Exponential Growth
16 Nov 2017
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Current reading: chapter 6, 9, and 18 (focus on bold terms and case studys) More indicators of change -- 4: increasing desertification, loss of arable land, movement of people, ecowars a possibility, different religions fighting. Indicators of change -- 5: water and air pollution. People attempt to use fans to blow away pollution, children could be affected by pollution, allergies. Indicators of change 6: connected to income, those with low income have less and produce less waste, carbon dioxide emissions, etc, those with high income have more and produce more waste, carbon dioxide emissions, etc. We live in a finite world: resources limited, change of renewals to non-renewals (maximum sustainable yield, if you exceed it the population will go down. ) Bank account analogy if you exceed the maximum sustainable yield by withdrawing money you will earn less and less on interest from what you earned at the very beginning.
